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[–] 2 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

can you tell me what ethical system says morality determined by society? it's been a few years since my philosophy degree, and it wasn't specialized in ethics, but I seem to remember moral relativism as being universally appalling.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    "universally appalling" despite it literally having supporters arguing over it for over a thousand years...

    Just because your class of idealist youth didn't like it doesn't make it universally appalling.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    Your question didn't require an answer, since it answered itself.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    so you're saying it's just straight up moral relativism, a theory of ethics that doesn't actually allow any questioning of morality, like divine command theory.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    That's only one variation of moral relativism. It is, as most things in ethics are, not black and white.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    your version is no more defensible than divine command theory, and it's totally useless for debating what we ought to think is moral.

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